Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] the [noun sg] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I flung the accusation at the smiling Agrippa . |
| 2 | . Er and I got the job at the Centre in August . |
| 3 | And after I got the job at the centre , erm that took up a lot of time for er a few weeks till I settled down . |
| 4 | ‘ I tried the bell at the front , ’ Pete said as they went in through a whitewashed scullery . |
| 5 | I used the worksheet at the top of the next column . |
| 6 | I entered the barn at the corner of the farmyard . |
| 7 | I told the guard at the reception desk in the dark , grim entrance why I had come and he told me to wait . |
| 8 | I paid the woman at the cash desk and smiled at her . |
| 9 | SINCE I joined the Company at the beginning of October I 've visited several locations and met most people at the Key Street office . |
| 10 | George Pittendrigh and I joined the organisation at the same time in the grey austere years after the war . |
| 11 | I opened the door at the top of the steps and went in . |
| 12 | I enjoyed the contrast at the Club , the jollity round the pool , the quietness of the airy room near the Artemis bar where people read or played cards , the shady walkways where nine gardeners work hard with hose and hoe keeping the bougainvillea brilliant and the geraniums glowing . |
| 13 | In 1987 I spent the summer at the college on the Intermediate Command Course and found it depressing to see just how little research was being sponsored or carried out there . |
| 14 | I grabbed the handrail at the edge of the cable car . |
| 15 | In September Valentin Scweiglerand I represented the shop at the ‘ Day of Foreign Churches ’ here in Hamburg . |
| 16 | Then I saw the door at the end of the passage . |
| 17 | FOR TWO DAYS I WENT ABOUT RACKING MY BRAINS FOR A PLOT OF ANY SORT ; – ON THE SECOND NIGHT I DREAMED THE SCENE AT THE WINK ) W , AND A SCENE AFTERWARD SPLIT IN TWO , IN WHICH HYDEPURSUED FOR SOME CRIME , TOOK THE POWDER AND UNDERWENT THE CHANGE IN THE PRESENCE OF HIS PURSUERS . |
| 18 | But Trevor I thought the consensus at the start |
| 19 | Reluctantly , I attended the celebration at the Docherty suite , Titford , for Polymers Championship . |
| 20 | I remembered the face at the window in my first week on the island . |
| 21 | I cleared the bar at the first height , then at the second height , but on the third attempt I knocked the bar over . |
| 22 | I said the girl at the cards would |
| 23 | My mother and I left the island at the end of the summer . |
| 24 | Er previous to that I held the licence at The Three Fishes at er for three years . |
| 25 | I know I stayed the night at the station but it do n't feel real . |
| 26 | CHRISTINE Elliott enjoyed every minute working for her Duke of Edinburgh Gold Award — and when she met the Duke at the presentation ceremony she told him so . |
| 27 | I do n't think you tackled all the needs in the now area of it but you got the amount at the end of it . |
| 28 | Before she could think or reason she levelled the gun at the face before her and felt herself pull the trigger . |
| 29 | She dismissed the taxi at the corner of Dorchester Terrace , thinking that the sight of it might alarm her sister . |
| 30 | Out of sight behind the orange trees she loosened the string at the neck of her blouse and readjusted the straps of the overalls . |